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Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. We beginfrom. The polls have just closed in catalonia, where Pro Independence supporters wanting to break away from spain are hoping to maintain their majority in the Regional Parliament. Catalonia made a failed attempt to break away from spain in 2017, and the election comes as the parliament in madrid is expected to approve a controversial amnesty law for separatist catalans facing legal action. Lets speak to our correspondent guy hedgecoe. If you could just set this into context. Why are these elections so significant . Context. Why are these elections so si. ...

Adviser has warned that israels operation in rafah wont succeed in defeating hamas and will cause grievous harm. Jake sullivan made the comments as he defended the president s threat to suspend Arms Shipments to israel. More palestinians have been told to move out of the Southern City of rafah towards a coastal area around al mawasi, which israel calls an expanded humanitarian zone. The hamas run Gaza Health Ministry says that at least Thirty Five Thousand palestinians have been killed since october 7th 35,000 palestinians have been killed since october 7th when hamas attacked israel. Paul ada...

Been killed after houses in the central area of the gaza strip were hit. Israel has also sent tanks north of there after a night of heavy aerial and ground bombardments. From jerusalem, paul adams reports. One by one, the people of rafah are leaving. Outlying parts of the city now all but deserted. I wasnt planning on going, hassan says, but since no one is left here, i decided to leave. I have to find out where my wife and daughter are. The un says 300,000 people have left already. Thats almost a quarter of those sheltering in rafah. Most are heading for the coast, to places barely able to su...

To the north in recent days describe scenes of utter horror, corpses, dead people left lying in the road, people with evident signs of starvation stopping trucks in search of anything they can get to survive. and even if people were able to return home to the north, we know from the statistics of buildings destroyed, many no longer have homes to go to. live now to drjames smith in london. he is an emergency physician associated with medical aid for palestinians and has returned from deir al—balah area of gaza strip just a few days ago. dr smith welcome to bbc news. wa nt to want to get your ...

Crowding in the few shelters available for displaced people. colleagues in our team visited one shelter, one of many in which individuals numbering about 40,000 individuals numbering about 40,000 in a number had just over one square metre per person in such a space. inadequate numbers of toilets, very, very undignified and unsafe conditions, and as a result we see increasing rates of diarrhoea diseases, major concerns related to malnutrition and high numbers of food insecurity as reflected in the recent ipcc report. really incredibly dire conditions. doctor smith, thank— incredibly dire cond...